RUSSIAN ARK, THE / L'ARCHE RUSSE (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy
• Plot: Invisible to everyone around him, a contemporary filmmaker magically finds himself in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg- back in the early 1700’s! He meets a cynical French diplomat from the 19th Century and the men become accomplices in an extraordinary time-traveling journey through Russia’s turbulent past - ending in the present day. The action unfolds before our eyes in a historic, single uncut steadicam shot.
• Cast: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky, David Giorgobiani, Aleksandr Chaban, Lev Eliseev, Oleg Khmelnitsky, Alla Osipenko, Artyom Strelnikov, Tamara Kurenkova, Maksim Sergeyev, Natalya Nikulenko, Elena Rufanova, Yelena Spiridonova, Konstantin Anisimov, Aleksey Barabash, Ilya Shakunov, Anna Aleksakhina, Vladimir Baranov, Valentin Bukin, Svetlana Gaytan, Vadim Gushchin, Kirill Dateshidze, Mikhail Dorofeyev, Valentina Yegorenkova, Sergey Losev, Vadim Lobanov, Vladimir Lisetsky, Aleksandr Malnykin, Kirill Miller, Viktor Mikhaylov, Sergey Muchenikov, Sergei Nadporozhny, Yuriy Orlov, Aleksandr Razbash, Vladimir Sevostyanikhin, Boris Smolkin, Evgeniy Filatov, Yuri Khomutyansky, Anatoli Shvedersky, Valery Gergiev, The State Hermitage Orchestra, Alexander Andreev, Dimitri Alexandrov, Artashes Aleksanyan, Anatoliy Dubanov, Mikhail Yegorov, Yulian Zhulin, Yefim Ioffe, Yuriy Kalugin, Valeri Kozinets, Aleksei Krymov, Valeri Smolyakov, Svetlana Svirko, Nikolai Fyodortsov, Valeriy Filonov, Andrei Shchepochkin, Aleksandr Kulikov, Aleksandra Kulikova, Nataliya Kadochnikova, Mariya Lavrova, Svetlana Smirnova, Aleksandr Sokurov, Boris Khaimsky, Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina, Jens Meurer, Karsten Stöter, Andrey Deryabin, Tilman Büttner
• Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
• Runtime: 1:42
• Company: The Hermitage Bridge Studio, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM), Filmbüro NW, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne), Fora Film, Koppmedia, NHK, Seville Pictures, YLE TV1, Danmarks Radio (DR), AST Studio, Mariinsky Theatre, Egoli Tossell Film, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB), Filmförderung Hamburg, Kulturelle Filmförderung Sachsen, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. (eOne)
• Media Format: Movie